Saturday, March 25, 2017

Yesterday I uploaded a new version of the APRS packet parser used by aprs.fi, Ham::APRS::FAP, to the CPAN. It's open source, so if you're a little bit weird like me and enjoy programming in Perl, this might be useful. Here's a full list of changes:

Improve make_position() to support HMS UTC timestamp. make_position() now returns the packet type character so that it can signal the presence of a timestamp.

Improve make_position() to support comment string, !DAO! extension, altitude encoding. Fix rounding errors in lat/lon/speed. Support generating packets with no speed or course. Take optional parameters in a hash parameter. Implement unit tests for make_position().